When criminal defense lawyer Ed Burlew was sifting through the documents sent over by a Crown prosecutor regarding his client, one jumped out. It was proof that the RCMP had kept a copy of the gun registry despite Parliament ordering it destroyed in 2012.
The long-gun registry was brought into being in 1995 with Bill C-68 but was done away with after the passage of Bill C-19 in 2012.
Yet, here was Burlew looking at a document from 2019 with information that could only have come from the registry.
“I was shocked and disgusted,” Burlew told me. “They kept it, it’s a secret file.”
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